On Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 9:12:59 PM UTC-4, Peter T. Daniels wrote:   
      
   > I just saw a Treasures of New York program on rail-to-trail projects   
   > throughout the state. Disused rail lines are far more valuable economically   
   > as new bike and hike trails than as revived rail lines. One of the four   
   > featured was the bridge across the Hudson, another is a line in the   
   > Adirondacks where Cuomo's compromise isn't being accepted by some railfans;   
   > I didn't see the first one, on a line along the Erie Canal; and the   
   > Queensway, about three miles of former LIRR, is still in the planning stage.   
      
   It should be noted that some rail-to-trail are pushed by those   
   who want to permanently kill and bury the train service.   
      
   SEPTA's Newtown Line was up to be restored.  Its service area   
   had grown tremendously with traffic congestion.  But the line   
   cut through a wealthy area that absolutely did not want the   
   trains to come back, and pushed to convert it to trail, which   
   it now mostly is.   
      
   Theorectically, a trail is "banked" and could be converted   
   back to a train.  But parks are sacred and never get touched.   
   (Moses knew that).   
      
   An activist, the late Lettie Gay Carson, once fought to   
   preserve the Chatham Line.  She retired to Newtown, and   
   worked to restore the train, calling out the opposition.   
   Neat woman.   
      
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